The 50 Most Useful jQuery Plugins for Frontend Development

There many other JavaScript frameworks available, but jQuery is clearly the most popular (according to BuiltWith, it’s currently used by over 78% of top million sites). The purpose of jQuery is to make many of those JavaScript functions that typically need many lines of code easier to manage and write by bundling them into methods that can be called upon with just a single line of code. It’s lightweight, and because it is extendable, there are jQuery plugins freely available for almost every functionality you can think of.

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Selector – A micro JavaScript library used as a replacement for jQuery, weighing in at nearly 5KB.

jquery.wanker.js is a humourous jQuery plugin that reveals a public service announcement when people start excessively resizing their desktop browser as they try to see your responsive breakpoints. As they say ‘The web is meant to be read, not squished!’